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...wait, wait. Joseph is white?
I'm not arguing with most of your points, though I only read about the first five books before getting frustrated and stopping; they're grimmer than I really like. But I thought Joseph was fairly explicitly brownish. Dark hair, olive-brown skin...
I don't own any of the books, so I can't check. But I'm blinking a lot because my mental image of Joseph was always, well, brown-skinned. Which is strange, now that I think about it, because he did play a Spaniard in the first book. Now I'm wondering why I was so sure he looked that way.
I'm not arguing with most of your points, though I only read about the first five books before getting frustrated and stopping; they're grimmer than I really like. But I thought Joseph was fairly explicitly brownish. Dark hair, olive-brown skin...
I don't own any of the books, so I can't check. But I'm blinking a lot because my mental image of Joseph was always, well, brown-skinned. Which is strange, now that I think about it, because he did play a Spaniard in the first book. Now I'm wondering why I was so sure he looked that way.